Tom and Bex's Blog 2011

Managed to finally get the water tank to fit on Friday after cutting away some insulation from under the well deck and using the lowest profile 1/2" fitting I could find for the breather pipe:http://img152.images...10207195101.jpg

Also got a final coat of paint in boatman's cabin including behind weed hatch. Saturday was spe...

As can be seen from previous entry Diesel and Dust is now back on hard standing.

Work this weekend concentrated on cleaning up as much as possible including sweeping down the outside of the boat and painting the boatman's cabin. After cleaning the rust was treated in the boatman's cabin on Saturday and after masking up was sprayed with 2 coats of red oxide - not easy working is such a small confined space while spraying and getting behind the new weed hatch was very difficult and may need touching up by hand next week as well as a final coat next week.http://img42.imagesh...10124162522.jpghttp://img232.images...10124162552.jpghttp://img29.imagesh...10124162410.jpg

Unfortunately it was a bit too tight and couldn't get the vent pipe fitting on so water tank will have to wait until next week since it was already gone 8pm and still had to drive back to Somerset. New fitting was also much taller so will have to resort back to original and even then the insulation needs "adjusting" to get it to fit!http://img266.images...10124200616.jpg

All in all not a bad weekends work and hopefully next weekend will go well.

All the welding has now been finished by Debdale Wharf and Diesel & Dust is back on the hard standing again. It was nice to be round the back again with less distractions and feels easier to work round there without disturbing people and less coming and going to distract you! http://img819.images...10124161312.jpg

Back to work on the boat again so soon which is nice. Just wish I could have every weekend off but don't think work would allow it! Glad to see work Debdale are progressing well with the work they are doing for us.

Started on Friday evening by painting a first coat of blacking in water tank space under front deck. It's a very tight space to b...